Reappraising Christine Keeler, Snowplough Parents & Why women love reading fiction

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What impact did the Profumo Affair have on the woman at its centre Christine Keeler? We hear an interview she did with Jenni in 2001 and Baroness Joan Bakewell and Professor Kate Williams discuss the attitudes to Christine Keeler at the time and how they have changed now.

We hear why women are at particular risk when it comes to experiencing a concussion. We hear from Dr Willie Stewart the Head of Glasgow Brain Indury Research Group and from Samantha Ainsworth who has post-concussion syndrome.

Professor Helen Taylor tells us why women are the main readers of fiction.

The government’s official advisers on youth justice are calling for a full review of the age of criminal responsibility. We hear why there are calls for it to be raised from ten years old to twelve. Dr Eileen Vizard a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Louise King the Director of Policy and Campaigns for Just for Kids Law.

Are you a snowplough parent? Are you guilty of doing your child’s homework so that they don’t experience failure? Rebecca Glover is the Principal of Surbiton High School and Dr Angharad Rudkin is a child psychologist discuss.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Karen Dalziel

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0:04.6	My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:08.4	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable
0:14.3	experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC
0:20.4	makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,
0:24.6	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.
0:29.7	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,
0:33.0	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway,
0:38.6	here's something you may not know.
0:40.8	My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:44.4	As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality
0:49.0	featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.
0:54.4	What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things,
0:59.2	like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories.
1:04.3	And that's just a few examples.
1:06.2	If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,
1:09.4	find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. This is the Woman's Our Podcast.
1:15.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
1:20.0	Hi, good afternoon. Welcome to the weekend edition of the program this week why is it that so many women and I'm one of them
1:26.3	Absolutely devour works of fiction we'll talk about Christine Kila her story is being told again on BBC Television on Sunday night.
1:35.7	We hear from her from a Woman's Hour interview back in 2001
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